The Enemy

An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

Gopal Balakrishnan

• Editore: Verso
• Anno: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781789607956
• Argomento: Philosophie
• Categoria: Philosophenbiographien

The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments.
The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works-his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950-presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. The Young Carl Schmitt
• 2. Dictatorship Sovereign and Commissarial
• 3. The State of Emergency
• 4. Catholicism and Nationalism in Modern Politics
• 5. The Legitimation Crisis of Parliament
• 6. Status Quo and Peace
• 7. Rechtsstaat and Democracy
• 8. The Crisis of Political Reason
• 9. The Elites: Between Pluralism and Fascism
• 10. Presidential Rule and Judicial Activism
• 11. Legality and Legitimacy
• 12. Trial and Endgame
• 13. The National Socialist Revolution
• 14. The Revolution in Legal Thought
• 15. Flight Forward and Retreat
• 16. The Leviathan Myth
• 17. Diaspora, Utopia, Katechon
• 18. The International Order and World War
• 19. The Law of the Earth
• 20. Finis Germania
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index